China inside out : : contemporary Chinese nationalism and transnationalism / / edited by Pal Nyiri and Joana Breidenbach.

The "war on terror" has generated a scramble for expertise on Islamic or Asian "culture" and revived support for area studies, but it has done so at the cost of reviving the kinds of dangerous generalizations that area studies have rightly been accused of. This book provides a mu...

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Year of Publication:2005
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (367 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents; List of Maps and Figures; Overview; Chapters; Chapter 1 Anthropological Concepts for the Study of Nationalism; Chapter 2 The Legacy of Empires and Nations in East Asia; Chapter 3 Researching Chinese Nationalism: the Foreign Relations Dimension; Chapter 4 On the Periphery of the "Clash of Civilizations?" Discourse and Geopolitics in Russio-Chinese Relations; Chapter 5 Minorities, Homelands and Methods; Chapter 6 The "New Migrant": State and Market Constructions of Modernity and Patriotism; Chapter 7 Race in China; Chapter 8 Outside In: Sino-Burmese Encounters
  • Chapter 9 Alterity MotivesChapter 10 The Contemporary Intellectual Context of the China Inside Out Project; Contributors; Glossary; Main Chinese Dynasties; Literature; Index of Text Boxes; Index